Women as sites of culture : women's roles in cultural formation from the Renaissance to the twentieth century /
edited by Susan Shifrin.
- xiv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-269) and index.
The Female Body As the Site of Polemics -- The Rhetoric of Corporeality and the Political Subject: Containing the Dissenting Female Body in Civil War England / 'As Strong as Any Man': Sojourner Truth's Tall Tale Embodiment / Flappers and Shawls: The Female Embodiment of Irish National Identity in the 1920s / 'We are going to carve revenge on your back': Language, Culture, and the Female Body in Kingston's The Woman Warrior / 'If this is improper, ...then I am all improper, and you must give me up': Daisy Miller and Other Uppity White Women as Resistant Emblems of America / Staging the Sights of Culture, Staging Women: Theater, Ritual, and Ceremony -- Bodies Political and Social: Royal Widows in Renaissance Ceremonial / Eroticizing Virtue: The Role of Cleopatra in Early Modern Drama / Applauding Shakespeare's Ophelia in the Eighteenth Century: Sexual Desire, Politics, and the Good Woman / Mother(s) of Invention: Prostitute-Actresses and Late Nineteenth-Century Bengali Theater / 'Art' for Men, 'Manners' for Women: How Women Transformed the Tea Ceremony in Modern Japan / Si(gh)ting the Woman as Cultural Resource -- Portrait Medals of Vittoria Colonna: Representing the Learned Woman / Si(gh)ting the Mistress of the House: Anne Clifford and Architectural Space / Christopher Orchard -- Alison Piepmeier -- Louise Ryan -- Lisa Plummer Crafton -- Lisa Johnson -- Elizabeth McCartney -- Reina Green -- Susan Lamb -- Sudipto Chatterjee -- Etsuko Kato -- Marjorie Och -- Elizabeth V. Chew -- The Rhetoric of Corporeality and the Political Subject: Containing the Dissenting Female Body in Civil War England / 'As Strong as Any Man': Sojourner Truth's Tall Tale Embodiment / Flappers and Shawls: The Female Embodiment of Irish National Identity in the 1920s / 'We are going to carve revenge on your back': Language, Culture, and the Female Body in Kingston's: The Woman Warrior / 'If this is improper, ... then I am all improper, and you must give me up': Daisy Miller and Other Uppity White Women as Resistant Emblems of America / Bodies Political and Social: Royal Widows in Renaissance Ceremonial / Eroticizing Virtue: The Role of Cleopatra in Early Modern Drama / Applauding Shakespeare's Ophelia in the Eighteenth Century: Sexual Desire, Politics, and the Good Woman / Mother(s) of Invention: Prostitute-Actresses and Late Nineteenth-Century Bengali Theater / 'Art' for Men, 'Manners' for Women: How women Transformed the Tea Ceremony in Modern Japan / Portrait Medals of Vittoria Colonna: Representing the Learned Woman / Si(gh)ting the Mistress of the House: Anne Clifford and Architectural Space / The 'Wild Woman' in the Culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth / 'At the end of the Walk by Madam Mazarines Lodgings': Si(gh)ting the Transgressive Woman in Accounts of the Restoration Court / 'Why do you call me to teach the court?': Anne Hutchinson and the Making of Cultural Authority / A Criticism of Contradiction: Anna Leticia Barbauld and the 'Problem' of Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing / Silent at the Wall: Women in Israeli Remembrance Day Ceremonies / Revisiting a Site of Cultural Bondage: JoAnn Gibson Robinson's Boycott Memoir / Christopher Orchard -- Alison Piepmeier -- Louise Ryan -- Lisa Plummer Crafton -- Lisa Johnson -- Elizabeth McCartney -- Reina Green -- Susan Lamb -- Sudipto Chatterjee -- Etsuko Kato -- Marjorie Och -- Elizabeth V. Chew -- Lynn Lubamersky -- Susan Shifrin -- Ross J. Pudaloff -- Robin DeRosa -- Kristine Peleg -- Ruth Ellen Kocher. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.
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